you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 222 points 2 years ago (15 children)
  • [–] 96 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Anybody paying attention to how weird GOP media has been becoming for over a decade has been speculating in this direction. It's good that the DOJ has finally done something. And lol, tenet media has folded.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This story was in The New York Times. During 2016 election The New York Times published thousands of stories about Clinton email/Benghazi, not one on Trumps lifelong ties to NY/Russian mob. As if The New York Times wasn't in a particularly knowledgeable position to report on 70 years of NYC construction & mob history. All the money in my pocket says The Paper of Record has been taking Russian money for decades.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    New York Times front page, three days before the 2016 election:

    Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia

    FUCK YOU NEW YORK TIMES

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    To be fair, there was an honest gambit there with Our Pal Russia, the same one that was tried with China. It didn't work but it seemed like a fair thing to try, especially considering the economic constraints of the alternative.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Putin wanted to join NATO. The US rejected Russia as an ally, while adding other former Soviet republics to NATO. Russia was slow to realize America wasn't merely content with the fall of Soviet communism, but also wanted cheap access to its natural resources. Russia has adjusted accordingly.

    America would've won cold war 1 & 2 in one move by admitting Russia to NATO and pitting them against China, but it got greedy.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    A good bit of shit in Chechnya already happened by that point, Russia showed itself as having not totally abandoned its old ways. Best case scenario Russia improves, worst case they do exactly what theyve done and fuck up NATO in the process. And given how Russia has been historically, well lets just say better to not take a stupid gamble.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Secretly"

    This is the dead giveaway that NYT does not give a SHIT about all the fucked up pro-Trump shit they've pulled. Not even a little.

    This is why I have zero problems when conservatives want to shit on it. "Yeah!" I say. Even though yeah usually they have something good there. Liberal media - yeah right. Fuck.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I agree with you, but let's try to not treat massive organizations as a single being. I'm sure even there some people were not ok with how pervasive Russian talking points were there. But then again, maybe I'm being naive.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment